Fitting a new door frame to the 2 storey offshot kitchen. Like most round here, the offshot has sunk a couple of inches over the years (built 1890), meaning the frame is about 1.5cm out in the opening.
Do I level the frame to a spirit level, or the opening? I've done it to the spirit level, thinking it wouldn't be that noticeable, and out of level would create door hanging problems. But now it's in (not permanently fixed) it does look odd to my eye.
Are you now looking at the frame without architrave which when added would hide or disguise some of the problem?
Often any non-squareness can be disguise by decoration, say, if the frame and door are the same colour as the walls.
The inside I can correct - it's the outside - the frame fits between 2 brick walls. Maybe some tapered sealant, but no amount of imagination is helping right now :-)
Probably one of those cases where "if it looks right, it is right". So you could make the frame match (or half and half it - lose a bit of the slope but not all of it)
Make it a feature :)
Haha - not quite that bad! I've hung the door and it all works, so I think I'll leave it as it is and cross the bridge if it really gets under my skin. It was only a proof of concept thing anyway, just to see if i could do it (door was free) as it needed doing.
Thing that got me was the partially glazed hardwood door - *really* heavy and awkward, and just about inside my limit. Much heavier and I'd have been stuffed.
Moving a heavy door any distance I use
Had seen those but only just noticed the 80kg rating. I'll get one - could be a back/toe/finger saver too . . .
Plant some leaning trees either side of it. Brian
If I look through our bathroom and catch sight of the top of the door frame relative to the window beyond, I wince.
My plan is to remove the architrave, square it up by adding some thin timber/filler put the architrave back on square (or replace) and trim the door down as necessary.
Yes, I've done that successfully on an internal door.
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